Commissions
Theater of Hope
Composer: Adam Maness
Arranger: Not Applicable
Publication: No Information Available at this Time
Duration: 4:39 (Mvt. 1); 5:09 (Mvt. 2); 4:47 (Mvt. 3); 4:23 (Mvt. 4)
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Program Notes:
Recorded at Powell Symphony Hall, January 2016
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Score Sample:
Voicing:
SSA (Mvt. 1 and Mvt. 2), SSAA (Mvt. 3), SSA and Alto Soloist (Mvt. 4)
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Accompaniment:
Piano - can be performed with strings and percussion as in our recordings
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Themes:
Lyrics:
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Katy Miller
I. Theater of Operations
When the sun rises!
Shake the scorpion from your boots
This is your day!
Remember why you are here
The heat
The beat
The beat of Chinooks in your ear
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II. Theater of Night
At night, silence.
Stars as deep as memory
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III. Mother's Song
You must trust
You must trust the sun to rise
Ev'ry morning, you must
This is an exercise of faith.
You hope it's not a lie
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You must trust
You must trust the memory of your fingers, the feel,
The palm of your hand
On his sweet forehead
His soft boy's hair when you tucked him into bed
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You must trust
You must trust and believe
That you will rest again when he is home
Though now you awake at dawn
Never forgetting where he is gone
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And you must trust,
You must trust the song
The power of all you cannot see
That feels like gravity,
That holds all things together,
Like melody
Like the arms of a mother.
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IV. The Soldier's Soldier
You are the mother, the soldier's soldier
In this sisterhood you do not rest
Even when you sleep you only have one dream,
that he is safe at home again
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You are the mother,
You are a soldier in your soul
Vigilance is what you learn to know.
Even when you sleep you dream a clock
counting the seconds until he's home again
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When he's home again
Home again
Who will he be,
Who will he be when he's home again
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Home again
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